Organized Section 11: Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

Religion And Politics Section Award Recipients

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award
The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended within the last two years.

2018	Michael Hoffman, University of Notre Dame “Communal Religion, Sectarian Interests, and Democracy.”
2017	Robert Braun, Northwestern University “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust.”
2016	Shoaib A. Ghias, University of California, Berkeley “Defining Shari’a: The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review.”
2016	Honorable Mention Alicia D. Forster, University of Florida “American Political Behavior and the Role of Religious Context.”
2016	Honorable Mention Jonathan S. Blake, Columbia University “Ritual Contention in Divided Societies: Participation in Loyalist Parades in Northern Ireland.”
2015	Michele Margolis, University of Pennsylvania “The Intersection of Religion and Politics: A Two-Way Street”
2014	Christopher Hale, Northern Arizona University “Religion and Political Activism.”
2013	Michael Robbins, University of Michigan Bound by Brand: Opposition Party Support under Electoral Authoritarianism
2013	Honorable Mention Jeremy Menchik, Boston University Tolerance Without Liberalism: Islamic Institutions and Political Violence in Twentieth Century Indonesia
2012	Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge The Shia of Saudi Arabia: Identity Politics, Sectarianism and the Saudi State (Completed at University of London, SOAS; advised by Professor Charles Tripp)
2011	Brandon Kendhammer, Ohio University “Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam and Democracy in Northern Nigeria”
2011	Samuel Goldman, Harvard University “The Shadow of God: Strauss, Jacobi, and the theology-Political Problem”
2010	Karrie Koesel, University of Oregon Belief in Authoritarianism, Religious Revivials, and the Local State in Russia and China
2009	Tarek Masoud, Harvard University Why Islam Wins: Electoral Ecologies and Economies of Political Islam in Contemporary Egypt
2008	Yuksel Sezgin, University of Washington “The States Response to Legal Pluralism: The Case of Religious Law and Courts in Israel, Egypt and India”
2007	Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey
2006	Andrew March, University of Oxford “Islamic Doctrines of Citizenship in Liberal Democracies: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus”
2006	Gregory Smith, University of Virginia “Political Parishes: The Influence of Priests on the Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes of American Catholics”
2004	Carla Valle, Harvard University “Roman Catholicism in Post-War Italy: How Social Organizations React to Political Change,” Harvard University, 2003
2003	Timothy Shah, Harvard University “A Horror of Discord: Radical Pluralism and the Invention of Liberalism in the Early Writings of Hugo Grotius”
2002	Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University “Encounters with the State: Gender and Islam in Rural Bangladesh”
2001	Nandita Aras, Columbia University “The Social Bases of Hindu Nationalism and Hindu Nationalist Parties”
2001	David Campbell, Harvard University “Acts of Faith: Strict Churches and Political Mobilization”
2000	Peter VonDoepp, Pepperdine University “Presbyterians, Catholics, and Grassroots Politics: Local Churches in Malawi’s Post-Authoritarian Era”
1999	Nathalie Gagnere, University of Oklahoma “The Catholic Church and the Rebirth of Civil Society: Elite Convergence, Mobilization, and Civil Society”
1998	Andrew Murphy, University of Wisconsin “Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Dissent in Early Modern England and America”
1997	Carrie Wickham, Princeton University “Political Mobilization under Authoritarian Rule: Explaining Islamic Activity in Mubarek’s Egypt”
1996	Geoffrey Layman, Vanderbilt University “Parties and Culture Wars: Conflict in the American Party System”
1995	Thomas Rourke, Texas Tech “Yves R. Simon and Contemporary Catholic Neo-Conservatism”